Ennis-Hill named in British team for IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015| News | iaaf.org Jessica Ennis in the heptathlon 800m at the IAAF World Championships (Getty Images) © Copyright 28 JUL 2015 General News Birmingham, UK Ennis-Hill named in British team for IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 Email British Athletics today named a team of 63 athletes to compete at the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 from 22-30 August. Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill, who returned to competition in May following the birth of her son Reggie, has accepted selection following impressive performances at last weekend’s IAAF Diamond League meeting in London, where she recorded three season’s bests across two consecutive days. Ennis-Hill will be joined in the heptathlon by medal rival Katarina Johnson-Thompson, who will also compete in the long jump. World 5000m and 10,000m champion Mo Farah has confirmed he will aim to defend both titles in the iconic Bird’s Nest stadium next month.

Farah, who won the 3000m in London last weekend and finished just 0.12 outside his own European 1500m record in Monaco on 17 July, will be looking to complete a hat-trick of world 5000m titles after taking gold in 2011 and 2013. Like Farah, 400m runner Christine Ohuruogu will also defend her world title. Olympic, Commonwealth and European champion Greg Rutherford is targeting an athletics grand slam in China by adding the only missing gold medal to his impressive collection and becoming only the fifth ever British athlete – after Daley Thompson, Sally Gunnell, Linford Christie and Jonathan Edwards – to simultaneously hold all the major titles. Also selected and displaying superb form after breaking the British records last weekend are Shara Proctor and Dina Asher-Smith. Proctor added three centimetres to the long jump record on Saturday with 6.98m, while Asher-Smith, selected in the 200m, became the first British woman to run faster than 11 seconds for the 100m with a time of 10.99.

Making his British debut in the 200m, Zharnel Hughes showed this past weekend that he is more than at home on the big stage, after clocking a personal best of 20.05 to win the 200m at the Olympic Stadium in London. Hughes is not the only youngster in the squad as 18-year-old 800m runner Kyle Langford is one of four members from this month’s European Junior Championships squad to make the step up. “Beijing is a hugely important event to us, yet this is the first of three huge global competitions for us, with the Olympics in Rio next year and the home World Championships in 2017,” said British Athletics Performance Director Neil Black. “In selecting athletes we were looking at either a potential to finish top eight in this year’s Worlds or to give opportunities to athletes developing towards medal success in 2016 and beyond.

“I’m very confident we have selected a team who can be successful in Beijing, as well as use it as a platform on to further Olympic and world successes.” British team for Beijing 100m: James Dasaolu, Richard Kilty, Chijindu Ujah 200m: Zharnel Hughes, Daniel Talbot 400m: Jarryd Dunn, Martyn Rooney, Rabah Yousif 800m: Kyle Langford, Michael Rimmer 1500m: Charlie Grice, Chris O’Hare 5000m: Mo Farah, Tom Farrell 10,000m: Mo Farah 400m hurdles: Niall Flannery, Jack Green High jump: Robbie Grabarz Long jump: Dan Bramble, Greg Rutherford Pole vault: Steve Lewis Hammer: Mark Dry, Nick Miller 20km race walk: Tom Bosworth 4x100m: Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, James Ellington, Adam Gemili, Richard Kilty, Danny Talbot, Chijindu Ujah 4x400m: Jarryd Dunn, Jack Green,

 Nigel Levine, Martyn Rooney, Conrad Williams, Delano Williams, Rabah Yousif WOMEN 200m: Margaret Adeoye, Dina Asher-Smith, Bianca Williams 400m: Christine Ohuruogu, Anyika Onuora 800m: Jenny Meadows, Shelayna Oskan-Clarke, Lynsey Sharp 1500m: Laura Muir, Laura Weightman 5000m: Steph Twell 100m hurdles: Cindy Ofili, Tiffany Porter 400m hurdles: Meghan Beesley, Eilidh Child High jump: Morgan Lake, Isobel Pooley Long jump: Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Shara Proctor, Lorraine Ugen Pole vault: Holly Bradshaw Jessica Ennis turns to Carolina Kluft for help coping with pressure | Sport | The Guardian Jessica Ennis turns to Carolina Kluft for help coping with pressure • British heptathlete will be home favourite in 2012 • Ennis will seek advice from Swedish champion Jessica Ennis is currently the only British athlete to be ranked No1 in the world.

Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images Jessica Ennis turns to Carolina Kluft for help coping with pressure • British heptathlete will be home favourite in 2012 • Ennis will seek advice from Swedish champion Sunday 13 June 2010 13.14 EDT First published on Sunday 13 June 2010 13.14 EDT Close This article is 6 years old Jessica Ennis plans to take advice on how to deal with the pressure of being the home favourite ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games from the three-times world champion heptathlete, Carolina Kluft. Ennis, the world indoor and outdoor champion, is the only British athlete ranked No1 in the world. As the nation's best hope for an athletics gold medal in 2012 the 24-year-old has a huge weight on her shoulders. Kluft, who was in a similar situation back in 2006 when the European Athletics Championships were held in Gothenburg, could prove a helpful source of advice for the Sheffield star. Ennis said: "Her coach was saying it would probably be a good idea to have a chat with her.

I think it could be good. She's obviously gone through it all and experienced it. And she's a lovely girl so I wouldn't mind chatting to her to see what she has to say and how she handled it." Kluft's coach, Agne Bergvall, suggested the idea when he bumped into Ennis's coach, Toni Minichiello, at the New York Diamond League meet where Ennis was competing in the three-event challenge. There, despite being narrowly beaten by the Olympic silver medallist, Hyleas Fountain of the United States – by only 15 points – Ennis's substantial personal best in the long jump shows the kind of form she is in before the European Championships in Barcelona next month. "I'm really pleased with my long jump PB," said Ennis of the 6.51m leap that added 8cm to her previous personal best. "I was so pleased with that, it's what I really came here to do." Ennis has struggled in the event since an injury in 2008 forced her to switch take-off legs.

"It niggled away at me a bit, it's taken a while to get right but now it's really good." A strong performance in the 100m hurdles also impressed, running 12.85 seconds to edge Fountain out and grab the victory. Still Ennis was not satisfied. "I just want that British record in the hurdles," she said of Angie Thorp's 14 year-old record of 12.80, of which her own personal best is 0.01 seconds away, "but I keep getting 80-something, not quite there." In the men's triple jump France's Teddy Tamgho is getting ever closer to Jonathan Edwards's 15-year-old world record. Tamgho, who is 21 tomorrow, set a world indoor record to take gold in Doha earlier this year, outperformed two huge names in the sport in New York – Phillips Idowu and Christian Olsson – to reach 17.98m, the furthest any man has jumped in 12 years. "It's so frustratingly close," said Tamgho, of being just 2cm away from the 18m mark.

"I had promised myself I would jump 18 metres before my 21st birthday on Tuesday." British Athletics Official Website | GB & NI team - Beijing World Championships 2015 ENNIS-HILL NAMED IN british athletics TEAM FOR IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Share this Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tell friends via WhatsApp Email us 28 July 2015 British Athletics today named a team of 62 athletes to represent the British Athletics team at the World Championships in Beijing, China 22-30 August 2015. Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill (coach: Toni Minichiello), who returned to competition in May following the birth of her son Reggie, has accepted selection following impressive performances at last weekendâs Sainsburyâs Anniversary Games, where she recorded three seasonâs bestsÂ across two consecutive days. Ennis-Hill will be joined in the heptathlon by medal rival Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Mike Holmes), who will also compete in the Long Jump.

Reigning 5000m and 10000m World Champion Mo Farah (Alberto Salazar) has confirmed he will aim to defend both titles in the iconic Birdâs Nest stadium next month.Â Farah, who won the 3000m at the Sainsburyâs Anniversary Games this weekend and finished just 0.12 secondsÂ outside his own British 1,500m record in MonacoÂ on 17 July, will be looking to complete a hat-trick of world 5000m titles after taking gold in 2011 and 2013. Reigning Olympic, Commonwealth and European Champion Greg Rutherford (Jonas Tawiah-Dodoo) is targeting an athletics Grand Slam in China by adding the only missing gold medal to his impressive collection and becoming only the fourth ever British athlete â after Daley Thompson, Sally Gunnell, Jonathan Edwards and Linford ChristieÂ â to simultaneously hold all the major titles.

Â Also selected and displaying superb form after breaking the British records this weekend are long jumper Shara Proctor (Rana Reider) and sprinter Dina Asher-Smith (John Blackie). Proctor added three centimetres to the womenâs record on Saturday, setting a new mark of 6.98m and Asher-Smith, selected in the 200m, became the first British woman to dip under 11 seconds for the 100m on Saturday, with a time of 10.99. Making his GB & NI debut in the 200m, Zharnel Hughes (Glen Mills) showed this past weekend that he is more than at home on the big stage, after clocking a personal best of 20.05s to win the 200m at the Olympic Stadium in London.Â Hughes is not the only youngster in the squad as 18 year-old 800m runner Kyle Langford (George Harrison) is one of four members from this monthâs European Junior squad to make the step up to a full GB international.

British Athletics Performance Director Neil Black said: Â âBeijing is a hugely important event to us, yet this is the first of three huge global competitions for us, with the Olympics in Rio next year and the home World championships in 2017. Â âIn selecting athletes we were looking at either a potential to finish top eight in this yearâs Worlds or to give opportunities to athletes developing towards medal success in 2016 and beyond.

âIâm very confident we have selected a team who can be successful in Beijing, as well as use it as a platform onto further Olympic and World successes.â Team for the IAAF World Championships: MEN: James Dasaolu (Steve Fudge) â Croydon Richard Kilty (Self Coached) â Gateshead Chijindu Ujah (Jonas Tawiah-Dodoo) â Enfield & Haringey 200m: Zharnel Hughes (Glen Mills) â Shaftesbury Barnet Daniel Talbot (Dan Cossins) â Birchfield 400m: Jarryd Dunn (Keith Holt) - Birchfield Rabah Yousif Bkheit (Carol Williams) â Newham & Essex 800m: Kyle Langford (George Harrison) Shaftesbury Barnet Michael Rimmer (Jon Bigg) â Liverpool Pembroke Sefton 1500m: Charlie Grice (Jon Bigg) - Brighton Phoenix Chris OâHare (Terrence Mahon) - Edinburgh 5000m: Mo Farah (Alberto Sal

azar) â Newham & Essex Tom Farrell (Mark Rowland) - Border 10000m: Mo Farah (Alberto Salazar) â Newham & Essex 110mH: Lawrence Clarke (Malcolm Arnold) â Windsor Slough Eton Hounslow 400mH: Niall Flannery (Nick Dakin) â Newham & Essex High Jump: Robbie Grabarz (Fuzz Ahmed) â Newham & Essex Long Jump: Dan Bramble (Frank Attoh) â Shaftesbury Barnet Greg Rutherford (Jonas Tawiah-Dodoo) â Marshall Milton Keynes Pole Vault: Steve Lewis (Dan Pfaff) â Newham & Essex Hammer Throw: Mark Dry (Chris Black) â Woodford Green with Essex Ladies Nick Miller (Tore Gustafsson) â Border 20k Walk: Tom Bosworth (Andi Drake) - Tonbridge 4 x 100m: Harry Aikines-Aryeetey â Sutton & District James Ellington (Linford Christie) â Newham & Essex Adam Gem

ili (Steve Fudge) â Blackheath & Bromley Plus from individual events: Richard Kilty (Self Coached) â Gateshead Danny Talbot (Dan Cossins) - Birchfield Chijindu Ujah (Jonas Tawiah-Dodoo) â Enfield & Haringey 4 x 400m: Jack Green (Loren Seagrave) â Kent Martyn Rooney (Rana Reider) â Croydon Conrad Williams (Linford Christie) â Kent Delano Williams (Neil Harrison) â Enfield & Haringey Plus from individual events: Jarryd Dunn (Keith Holt) - Birchfield Rabah Yousif Bkheit (Carol Williams) â Newham & Essex Â Asha Philip (Steve Fudge) â Newham & Essex 200m: Margaret Adeoye (Linford Christie) â Enfield & Haringey Dina Asher-Smith (John Blackie) â Blackheath & Bromley Bianca Williams (Lloyd Cowan) â Enfield & Haringey 400m: Christine Ohuruog

u (Christine Bowmaker) â Newham & Essex Anyika Onuora (Rana Reider) â Liverpool Harriers 800m: Jenny Meadows (Trevor Painter) - Wigan Shelayna Oskan-Clarke (Ayo Falola) â Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow Lynsey Sharp (Reider) - Edinburgh Laura Muir (Andy Young) â Dundee Hawkhill Laura Weightman (Steve Cram) - Morpeth 5000m: Steph Twell (Mick Woods) â Aldershot Farnham & District 10000m: Kate Avery (Tony Simmons) Shildon 100mH: Cindy Ofili (James Henry) â Woodford Green with Essex Ladies Tiffany Porter (Rana Reider) â Woodford Green with Essex Ladies 400mH: Meghan Beesley (Nick Dakin) - Birchfield Eilidh Child (Malcolm Arnold) - Pitreavie High Jump: Morgan Lake (Eldon Lake) - Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow Isobel Pooley (Fuzz Ahmed

) - Aldershot Farnham & District Long Jump: Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Mike Holmes) â Liverpool Harriers Shara Proctor (Rana Reider) â Birchfield Lorraine Ugen (Shawn Jackson) â Blackheath & Bromley Pole Vault: Holly Bradshaw (Scott Simpson) - Blackburn Hammer Throw: Sophie Hitchon (Tore Gustafsson) - Blackburn Javelin: Goldie Sayers (Mark Roberson) â Belgrave Heptathlon: Jessica Ennis-Hill (Toni Minichiello) â Sheffield Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Mike Holmes) â Liverpool Harriers 4 x 100m: Louise Bloor (Toni Minichiello) - Trafford Desiree Henry (Rana Reider) â Enfield & Haringey, Jodie Williams (Christine Bowmaker) -Â Herts Phoenix Darryll Neita â (Jonas Tawiah-Dodoo) - Shaftesbury Plus from individual events: Asha Philip (Steve Fudge) â Newham & Essex Dina Asher-Smith (John Blackie) â Blackheath &

 Bromley Bianca Williams (Lloyd Cowan) â Enfield & Haringey 4 x 400m: Kirsten McAslan (Trevor Painter) â Sale Seren Bundy-Davies (Stephen Ball) - Trafford Laviai Nielsen (Frank Adams) â Enfield & Haringey Plus from individual events: Margaret Adeoye (Linford Christie) â Enfield & Haringey Eilidh Child (Malcolm Arnold) - Pitreavie Christine Ohuruogu (Christine Bowmaker) â Newham & Essex Anyika Onuora (Rana Reider) â Liverpool Harriers Jessica Ennis sets heptathlon 100m hurdles world best as London 2012 campaign begins - Telegraph Athletics Jessica Ennis sets heptathlon 100m hurdles world best as London 2012 campaign begins Jessica Ennis, the poster girl of the British Olympic team, had a dream start to her London 2012 campaign when she broke the UK 100 metres hurdles record in the opening event of the heptathlon.

Flying high: Jessica Ennis' 100m hurdles time was the fastest ever in a heptathlon Follow The Sheffield athlete looked stunned as she looked up at the electronic scoreboard in the Olympic stadium to discover that she had clocked 12.54 sec to win her heat – obliterating her previous lifetime best of 12.79 and slicing 0.02 sec off Tiffany Porter’s national record for the event. It was also the quickest hurdles time ever recorded by a woman in a heptathlon, bringing her a noisy standing ovation from the 80,000 crowd when her achievement was announced. Ennis had revealed before the race that she was hoping for a personal best but could not have imagined that she would shatter it by such a margin. It gave her 1,195 points and a 17-point lead over Canadian Jessica Zelinka in second place. More significantly, it put her a massive 142 points ahead of Russia’s Tatyana Chernova, who was almost a second slower in 13.48 sec.

Nataliya Dobrynska, the reigning Olympic champion, was even further behind after clocking 13.57 sec. In all, five women lowered their personal bests in Ennis’s heat, confirming pre-Games predictions that the track would be super-fast and raising the prospect of plenty more records to come. Related Articles Farah and Ennis voted British athletes of the year| News | iaaf.org Home of World Athletics Mohamed Farah of Great Britain celebrates as he crosses the finish line ahead of Bernard Lagat of the USA to claim victory in the men&#39;s 5000 metres final (Getty Images) © Copyright 29 OCT 2011 General News London, UK Farah and Ennis voted British athletes of the year Email World championship medallists Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis have been named athletes of the year for the second year in succession by the British Athletics Writers’ Association (BAWA) at the organisation’s annual awards event on Friday (28). Last year Ennis was a unanimous pick for the prestigious athletics writers’ award, while Farah had to overcome close competition from 400m hurdler Dai Greene.

This time it was Farah who was the runaway winner, the World 5000m champion taking the men’s award for the third time, while Ennis clinched the women’s title for the third year in succession winning by just two votes from World 1500m runner-up Hannah England. Although the winners remain the same, the trophies will bear new names this year as the awards have been renamed in honour of two former and highly esteemed BAWA members. From 2011 they are called the John Rodda Award for male athlete of the year and the Cliff Temple Award for female athlete of the year. For Farah this is the second major award in the space of a month after he was voted European athlete of the year in September. He is the first distance runner to win the prize three times, and joins all-time greats Lynn Davies, Sebastian Coe, Linford Christie and Jonathan Edwards as a triple winner.

The honour caps a magnificent year for the 28-year-old who not only took the 5000m title at the World Championships in Daegu but picked up silver in the 10,000m after a narrow defeat to Ethiopia’s Ibrahim Jeilan and retained his European Indoor 3000m crown in March. The US-based west Londoner also broke European records for 5000m indoors and 10,000m, improved the British 5000m record outdoors, and set a British Half Marathon record on his debut at the distance in New York. “I’m delighted to win the BAWA Athlete of the Year Award,” said Farah from his American training base in Portland, Oregon. “I would like to thank all the writers who followed my journey, not only in 2011 but for the past 10 years." “Thank you to those who voted for me for and I’m happy to have given you some good stories to write this year. I am fortunate to have a great team behind me and I thank them for their help in getting me to this level.

“As we plan for 2012 I hope to continue running well in what promises to be a very exciting year for sport in the UK. I know my fellow athletes are also training extremely hard and I urge all the media to get behind us as we try our best to run, jump and throw well in London next summer. “Athletics is one of the toughest sports in the Olympic programme where medals are difficult to achieve but I hope that support of the home crowd will inspire us to do our best." World 400m Hurdles champion Dai Greene was runner-up in the male vote for the second year in a row, while Phillips Idowu, the World Triple Jump silver medallist, was third. Ennis retained the women’s trophy by a narrow margin after taking silver in the Daegu Heptathlon behind Russia’s Tatyana Chernova. With three BAWA awards to her name, the 25-year-old from Sheffield is now only one behind another multi-eventer Denise Lewis, the 2000 Olympic Heptathlon champion. Ennis said: “It is great to once again be recognised by BAWA as their female athlete of the year.

“The Heptathlon is not the easiest discipline to follow and the athletics writers really help the public follow my progress. I really appreciate the support they give me and look forward to seeing them all at my competitions in 2012.” England finished second in the women’s vote after claiming a World silver medal with a dramatic finish in Daegu, while Helen Clitheroe was third following her heart-warming victory over 3000m at the European Indoor Championships. Clitheroe’s Paris win also earned the 37-year-old from Preston a special honour as the first ever winner of the new BAWA Inspiration Award given in recognition of an athlete who made an outstanding performance in a single event, performed well against the odds, or is retiring after a long and distinguished career. Jodie Williams won the Lilian Board Memorial Award for junior women for the third successive year. The sprinter from Herts Phoenix AC, who claimed the 100m and 200m double at the European Junior Championships in Tallinn, is the first athlete ever to win the junior award three times.

The Jim Coote Memorial Award for junior men went to Birchfield Harrier Adam Cotton who won the European junior 1500m title in July. The Ron Pickering Memorial Award for Services to Athletics was presented to Dave Bedford, race director of the Virgin London Marathon. The former 10,000m world record holder will step down as race director, following next year’s event on Sunday 22 April, but will continue to work with the event. BAWA for the IAAF Britain's best athletes Britain's best athletes by Cass Chapman Cass Chapman, a London-born journalist, can now be found in deep Dorset, living happily by the sea. After studying in the US, writing a book in Barcelona, and freelancing on all things Spain from Madrid, she is back in the UK, writing fo... From SheKnows UK There are high hopes for the Olympic heroes competing for British Gold this summer and they are worthy of such acclaim. Hosting the games is only adding to the pressure and the build-up has been immense, but we have a team we can be extremely proud of already.

Jessica Ennis She has graced the cover of women's magazines, appeared in countless television and print ads, and is already the darling of Britain's women Olympic athletes. Jessica Ennis is a force to be reckoned with and the bookies are placing her as a firm favourite to bring home gold this summer. She is the 2011 European heptathlon champion — she didn’t participate in 2012 because of the event’s proximity to the Olympics — and also the former world heptathlon champion. She was cruelly kept from the 2008 Beijing Olympics due to a stress fracture in her foot so, despite being one of Britain's leading athletes, she is yet to grace the Olympic stage. Dai Greene The current commonwealth and world champion for the 400 metre hurdles, Dai Greene's time has only been beaten by Kriss Akabusi. A Welshman by birth, he competes both for Britain and Wales. In 2010 he won gold in the 400 metre hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona and again at the Delhi Commonwealth Games that same year.

2011 saw him take gold at the World Athletics Championships in South Korea and he was later named an Ambassador for the Jaguar Academy of Sport. Mo Farah Mohammad "Mo" Farah is a Somali-born British national and track and field athlete who currently holds the title of 5,000 metre world champion. His wins are too long to list but suffice it to say, he is a serious contender to lead Britain to victory this summer. His accolades have made him an ambassador for Bupa, Lucozade Sport and Nike, and last year he was voted European Athlete of the Year from 12 very competitive nominees. Holly Bleasdale Aged just 20, Holly Bleasdale is one of Britain's new-generation athletes and a bright star on the British team. A current record holder, she is a track and field athlete who specialises in the pole vault. She has competed in the 2010 World Junior Championships, the 2011 European Indoor Championships and the European Team Championships. So long as her nerves hold up, there are high hopes that this fantastic young athlete could bring one home for Team GB.

Adam Gemili 18-year-old Adam Gemili is predicted by many to be the fourth Brit to be world 100-metre champion, being the sprinting sensation that he is. Having recently eased through the World Junior Championships in Barcelona winning his 100-metre heat, Gemili is fast becoming one of greatest young heavyweight hopefuls for another gold medal. Images: WENN Athletics at the 2012 London Summer Games: Women's Heptathlon | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com Athletics at the 2012 London Summer Games: Women's Heptathlon Host City: London, Great Britain Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Stratford, London Date Started: August 3, 2012 Date Finished: August 4, 2012 Format: Scoring by 1985 point tables. Gold: Tatyana Chernova Summary The favorite coming in was Russian [Tatyana Chernova], the 2011 World Champion, but British fans would not hear of that. All their hopes rested on [Jessica Ennis], who had finished second at the 2011 Worlds.

Chernova towered over Ennis, but the smaller Brit was very good in the hurdles and long jump, making up her for size disadvantage. Ukrainian [Nataliya Dobrynska] was the defending champion and considered a challenger for gold again. The three had shared the #1 world ranking since 2008, with Dobrynska leading in 2008, Ennis in 2009-10, and Chernova in 2011. Another medal contender was American [Hyleas Fountain], the Beijing silver medalist, but she had injury issues. Both Fountain and Dobrynska would eventually drop out of the competition, Fountain after the javelin and Dobrynska after the long jump. Ennis opened up with her best event, the high hurdles, and jumped to an early lead with 12.54, the best ever mark posted in a heptathlon, and one which would have placed her fourth in the open high hurdles. She maintained her lead with a 1.86 high jump, with Fountain moving into second place, only 25 points back. Chernova was only 16th after the second event.

Chernova's gold medal hopes went awry in the shot put, when she posted only 14.17, not even equalling Ennis's throw of 14.28. Chernova was mired in 13th place, while Ennis dropped to second, behind Lithuanian [Austra Skujytė], whose throw of 17.31 was an all-time heptathlon record. The first day ended with Ennis moving well back into the lead with a 200 time of 22.83 for 4,158 points, Skujtė in second but almost 200 points behind. Chernova moved up to ninth after day one. On day two Chernova improved with a long jump of 6.54, which led the hept, and moved her up to third place. But Ennis nearly matched that with a jump of 6.48 and increased her lead over Skujtė to 258 points. Ennis then threw a PR 47.49 in the javelin which all but secured her the gold medal.

Skujtė still trailed in second, with Chernova now only sixth. The 800 began in the dark of a Saturday evening that would prove mystical for British fans. As Ennis was about to start her 800, British long jumper [Greg Rutherford] recorded a mark that would win him the gold medal a few moments later. Ennis refused to jog the 800, leading the first lap in 1:01.89, and coming home in 2:08.65 for a gold medal by over 300 points as the British crowd went crazy. Behind her, German Lilli Schwarzkopf moved up from fifth place with a 2:10.50 to earn silver, and Chernova's 2:09.56 brought her the bronze medal, as Skujtė could only run 2:20.59 and dropped back to fifth, also trailing Ukrainian [Liudmyla Iosypenko]. Shortly after Ennis won her gold medal, the men's 10,000 metres started and Britain's [Mo Farah] won another British gold medal, to the delight of the adoring crowd.

Three British golds in one night were highlighted by Jessica Ennis proving herself the world's greatest woman athlete. 4th place [Liudmyla Iosypenko]. was later retrospectively disqualified after abnormalities were found on her biological passport. View a Phase of this Event • Final Standings Final Standings Jessica Ennis and Phillips Idowu Claim Maiden Golds in Berlin | Bleacher Report Jessica Ennis and Phillips Idowu Claim Maiden Golds in Berlin Use your ← → (arrow) keys to browse more stories (Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images) 125 0 Comments When athletics in the United Kingdom seemed to be floundering, a new darling of the track and field has emerged in this week’s World Athletic Championships in Berlin. Jessica Ennis proved that fairy tales can happen as she secured her country’s only gold of the championships so far in the Heptathlon event. In doing so, she has won over the nation and given Britain hope with London 2012 Olympics just around the corner. She becomes the first British athlete to win gold in the event at a World Championships. Ennis fell a mere 100 points short of the British record set by former Olympic champion Denise Lewis.

She did, however, surpass the total set by Lewis and Kelly Southerton in past World Championships. Ennis coped admirably with the weight of expectation on her shoulders as she made the trip to Berlin as the only British athlete currently ranked world No. 1 in their event. After day one, Jessica Ennis had completed the 100-metre hurdles, the high jump, the shot put, and the 200 metres, setting personal bests in both the the shot put and 200 metres. In supreme form, the 23-year-old had amassed a total of 4,124 points, the third-highest score in the history of the event after the first day of competition. She held an imposing 307-point lead over her main rival, Ukrainian Nataliya Dobrynskya. Her lead was reduced after she finished ninth in the long jump, and was cut even further after the javelin, as Poland’s Chudzik came to within 171 points of the British athlete. This left Ennis with a 12-second advantage going into the final event, the 800 metres.

However, she would draw confidence from the knowledge that her personal best time in the 800 metres was superior to any of her rivals. Ennis tore up the track, taking to the front of the pack and only surrendering her lead briefly to Dobrynskya before moving once more to the front and striding down the home straight in first place. After suffering the disappointment of missing out on the Beijing Olympics due to a career threatening stress fracture in her ankle, Ennis has shown her strength in character returning from injury after more than a year sidelined to claim gold in the heptathlon. Meanwhile, Phillips Idowu today claimed a long-awaited gold in the triple jump after producing a personal best distance of 17.73 metres. The 30-year-old finally overcame long term rival Nelson Evora, as the Portuguese favourite was resigned to losing his crown as he failed to out-jump the flamboyant British athlete. The two golds mark an improvement for the British team after Christine Ohuruogo won the only gold medal at last year’s summer Olympics.

World Athletics Championship Betting – Women’s Athletics Odds - Online Betting News World Athletics Championship Betting – Women’s Athletics Odds Ennis-Hill looks in better nick than her younger team-mate 18th August 2015 / paul While both Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Jessica Ennis-Hill would dearly love to be among the medals in the Heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing this competition, the last major event before the Olympics, is all about where the two British athletes are in relation to their rivals for gold next year in Rio. Johnson-Thompson was fifth in the last World Championships in Moscow but the 22-year-old hasn’t competed in a heptathlon this season having been hampered by niggling injuries. Ennis-Hill has only just returned to action following the birth of son Reggie last summer. The 29-year-old has made a late decision to compete in Beijing but recent results, including a 12.79 100m hurdles against a headwind in London, suggests she is in much better shape than when she only scored 6520 to finish fourth in a heptathlon in Gotzis earlier behind Brianne Theisen-Eaton.

The Olympic champion looks value at 5/4 with sportingbet and Paddy Power to accumulate more points than Johnson-Thompson but would have to be at her peak to win gold as she has only bettered Theisen-Eaton’s 6808 in Gotzis on just three occasions during her whole career. There is no Dafne Schippers to contend with in Beijing, however, as she is contesting the 100m and 200m. The Dutch star is only 3/4 with Unibet and 888sport to win a medal in Beijing in the 100m after winning the European indoor title over 60m. She also won at the Diamond League meeting in London, setting a new national record in the process, but bookmakers think she’ll struggle to get the better of Jamaica‘s Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce. The world and Olympic champion is 5/11 with Unibet and 888sport to successfully defend her title in Beijing with Schippers available at 13/2 with Coral .

Nigeria‘s Blessing Okagbare, gold medallist in the 100m and 200m in last year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, is 9/1 with Skybet and Coral, the same odds as American Tori Bowie ( betfair ). The women’s 100m hurdles should be one of the track events to savour in the Chinese capital but the USA are likely to dominate. The 2008 Olympic champion Dawn Harper-Nelson is 3/1 with Unibet and 888sport and currently second in the betting to compatriot Sharika Nelvis (11/10 with Ladbrokes ). But we shouldn’t be underestimating Kendra Harrison, who is still improving and was just touched off by Harper-Nelson in the US Championships having set a personal best in the heats. ‘Keni’ is a general 4/1 to win the gold in Beijing. Read the latest news:

Question: British athlete, Jessica Ennis, is currently World Champion in which women's event?
Answer: HEPTATHLON